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Queuing Theoretic Analysis of Power-performance Tradeoff in Power-efficient Computing
In this paper we study the power-performance relationship of power-efficient
computing from a queuing theoretic perspective. We investigate the interplay of
several system operations including processing speed, system on/off decisions,
and server farm size. We identify that there are oftentimes "sweet spots" in
power-efficient operations: there exist optimal combinations of processing
speed and system settings that maximize power efficiency. For the single server
case, a widely deployed threshold mechanism is studied. We show that there
exist optimal processing speed and threshold value pairs that minimize the
power consumption. This holds for the threshold mechanism with job batching.
For the multi-server case, it is shown that there exist best processing speed
and server farm size combinations.Comment: Paper published in CISS 201
Quantum Statistical Entropy and Minimal Length of 5D Ricci-flat Black String with Generalized Uncertainty Principle
In this paper, we study the quantum statistical entropy in a 5D Ricci-flat
black string solution, which contains a 4D Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole
on the brane, by using the improved thin-layer method with the generalized
uncertainty principle. The entropy is the linear sum of the areas of the event
horizon and the cosmological horizon without any cut-off and any constraint on
the bulk's configuration rather than the usual uncertainty principle. The
system's density of state and free energy are convergent in the neighborhood of
horizon. The small-mass approximation is determined by the asymptotic behavior
of metric function near horizons. Meanwhile, we obtain the minimal length of
the position which is restrained by the surface gravities and the
thickness of layer near horizons.Comment: 11pages and this work is dedicated to the memory of Professor Hongya
Li
Quantum super-cavity with atomic mirrors
We study single-photon transport in an array of coupled microcavities where
two two-level atomic systems are embedded in two separate cavities of the
array. We find that a single-photon can be totally reflected by a single
two-level system. However, two separate two-level systems can also create,
between them, single-photon quasi-bound states. Therefore, a single two-level
system in the cavity array can act as a mirror while a different type of cavity
can be formed by using two two-level systems, acting as tunable "mirrors",
inside two separate cavities in the array. In analogy with superlattices in
solid state, we call this new "cavity inside a coupled-cavity array" a
super-cavity. This supercavity is the quantum analog of Fabry-Perot
interferometers. Moreover, we show that the physical properties of this quantum
super-cavity can be adjusted by changing the frequencies of these two-level
systems.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
EgoFace: Egocentric Face Performance Capture and Videorealistic Reenactment
Face performance capture and reenactment techniques use multiple cameras and sensors, positioned at a distance from the face or mounted on heavy wearable devices. This limits their applications in mobile and outdoor environments. We present EgoFace, a radically new lightweight setup for face performance capture and front-view videorealistic reenactment using a single egocentric RGB camera. Our lightweight setup allows operations in uncontrolled environments, and lends itself to telepresence applications such as video-conferencing from dynamic environments. The input image is projected into a low dimensional latent space of the facial expression parameters. Through careful adversarial training of the parameter-space synthetic rendering, a videorealistic animation is produced. Our problem is challenging as the human visual system is sensitive to the smallest face irregularities that could occur in the final results. This sensitivity is even stronger for video results. Our solution is trained in a pre-processing stage, through a supervised manner without manual annotations. EgoFace captures a wide variety of facial expressions, including mouth movements and asymmetrical expressions. It works under varying illuminations, background, movements, handles people from different ethnicities and can operate in real time
Instability of defensive alliances in the predator-prey model on complex networks
A model of six-species food web is studied in the viewpoint of spatial
interaction structures. Each species has two predators and two preys, and it
was previously known that the defensive alliances of three cyclically predating
species self-organize in two-dimensions. The alliance-breaking transition
occurs as either the mutation rate is increased or interaction topology is
randomized in the scheme of the Watts-Strogatz model. In the former case of
temporal disorder, via the finite-size scaling analysis the transition is
clearly shown to belong to the two-dimensional Ising universality class. In
contrast, the geometric or spatial randomness for the latter case yields a
discontinuous phase transition. The mean-field limit of the model is
analytically solved and then compared with numerical results. The dynamic
universality and the temporally periodic behaviors are also discussed.Comment: 5 page
TRAO Survey of Nearby Filamentary Molecular clouds, the Universal Nursery of Stars (TRAO FUNS) I. Dynamics and Chemistry of L1478 in the California Molecular Cloud
"TRAO FUNS" is a project to survey Gould Belt's clouds in molecular lines.
This paper presents its first results on the central region of the California
molecular cloud, L1478. We performed On-The-Fly mapping observations using the
Taedeok Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) 14m single dish telescope equipped
with a 16 multi-beam array covering 1.0 square degree area of this region
using CO (1-0) mainly tracing low density cloud and about 460 square
arcminute area using NH (1-0) mainly tracing dense cores. CS (2-1)
and SO were also used simultaneously to map 440 square
arcminute area of this region. We identified 10 filaments by applying the
dendrogram technique to the CO data-cube and 8 dense NH
cores by using {\sc FellWalker}. Basic physical properties of filaments such as
mass, length, width, velocity field, and velocity dispersion are derived. It is
found that L1478 consists of several filaments with slightly different
velocities. Especially the filaments which are supercritical are found to
contain dense cores detected in NH. Comparison of non-thermal
velocity dispersions derived from CO and NH for the
filaments and dense cores indicates that some of dense cores share similar
kinematics with those of the surrounding filaments while several dense cores
have different kinematics with those of their filaments. This suggests that the
formation mechanism of dense cores and filaments can be different in individual
filaments depending on their morphologies and environments.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Distribution of magnetic domain pinning fields in GaMnAs ferromagnetic films
Using the angular dependence of the planar Hall effect in GaMnAs
ferromagnetic films, we were able to determine the distribution of magnetic
domain pinning fields in this material. Interestingly, there is a major
difference between the pinning field distribution in as-grown and in annealed
films, the former showing a strikingly narrower distribution than the latter.
This conspicuous difference can be attributed to the degree of non-uniformity
of magnetic anisotropy in both types of films. This finding provides a better
understanding of the magnetic domain landscape in GaMnAs that has been the
subject of intense debate
New Experimental Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron in a Paramagnetic Insulator
We report results of an experimental search for the intrinsic Electric Dipole
Moment (EDM) of the electron using a solid-state technique. The experiment
employs a paramagnetic, insulating gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) that has a
large magnetic response at low temperatures. The presence of the eEDM would
lead to a small but non-zero magnetization as the GGG sample is subject to a
strong electric field. We search for the resulting Stark-induced magnetization
with a sensitive magnetometer. Recent progress on the suppression of several
sources of background allows the experiment to run free of spurious signals at
the level of the statistical uncertainties. We report our first limit on the
eEDM of 10ecm with 5 days of
data averaging.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, Revtex 4.
Ultrafast spectroscopy of propagating coherent acoustic phonons in GaN/InGaN heterostructures
We show that large amplitude, coherent acoustic phonon wavepackets can be
generated and detected in InGaN/GaN epilayers and heterostructures
in femtosecond pump-probe differential reflectivity experiments. The amplitude
of the coherent phonon increases with increasing Indium fraction and unlike
other coherent phonon oscillations, both \textit{amplitude} and \textit{period}
are strong functions of the laser probe energy. The amplitude of the
oscillation is substantially and almost instantaneously reduced when the
wavepacket reaches a GaN-sapphire interface below the surface indicating that
the phonon wavepackets are useful for imaging below the surface. A theoretical
model is proposed which fits the experiments well and helps to deduce the
strength of the phonon wavepackets. Our model shows that localized coherent
phonon wavepackets are generated by the femtosecond pump laser in the epilayer
near the surface. The wavepackets then propagate through a GaN layer changing
the local index of refraction, primarily through the Franz-Keldysh effect, and
as a result, modulate the reflectivity of the probe beam. Our model correctly
predicts the experimental dependence on probe-wavelength as well as epilayer
thickness.Comment: 11 pages, 14 figure
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